The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) made progress in addressing previously reported control deficiencies; however, continuing and newly identified control deficiencies limited the effectiveness of security controls for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of IRS's key financial and tax processing systems. During fiscal year 2016, IRS made improvements in access controls over

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) made progress in implementing information security controls; however, weaknesses in the controls limited their effectiveness in protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of financial and sensitive taxpayer data. During fiscal year 2015, IRS continued to devote attention to securing its information systems that process sensitive taxpayer and fin

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) made progress in implementing information security controls; however, weaknesses limit their effectiveness in protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of financial and sensitive taxpayer data. During fiscal year 2014, IRS continued to devote attention to securing its information systems that process sensitive taxpayer and financial information.

(1) The IRS fiscal year 2012 budget request is a 9.4 percent, or $1.14 billion, increase over fiscal year 2010 with most of the increases for the Enforcement and Operations Support appropriations. It is a 20 percent increase over 2008. The budget justification proposes a 6 percent increase in full time equivalent staff since 2010 and an 11 percent increase since 2008. (2) IRS projects $190 millio

IRS cannot develop a comprehensive estimate of the business nonfiling rate and associated tax gap because it lacks data about the population of all businesses. However, IRS could develop a partial estimate using its business nonfiler inventory. IRS identifies several million potential business nonfilers each year, more than it can thoroughly investigate. IRS could take a random sample of its inve

The President's fiscal year 2009 budget request for IRS is $11.4 billion, 4.3 percent more than last year's enacted amount. The request proposes to maintain taxpayer service at recent levels, in part by realizing efficiency gains from electronic filing, despite a decrease in staffing. It also proposes a 7 percent increase in enforcement spending, including spending for 21 legislative and nonlegis

The accuracy of paper-filed K-1 data is reduced by transcription errors; paper and e-filed K-1s have inaccurate TINs. IRS estimates that transcription errors for tax year 2002 ranged from 5 and 9.5 percent and is taking steps to address such errors. Although e-filed K-1s do not require transcription, for tax year 2002, the percentage of invalid TINs for e-filed K-1s and paper-filed K-1s were comp

IRS is requesting $10.4 billion and 101,043 FTEs, a dollar increase of about 5 percent over the fiscal year 2003 request. The 2004 budget request, like other recent requests, identifies compliance as one of IRS's top priorities for additional resources. IRS intends to fund some program enhancements from the requested budget increase and internal savings. Several factors, including lowered savings

GAO noted that: (1) according to IRS performance data and comments from IRS officials and representatives of large tax practitioners, IRS' tax processing systems performed slightly better in the 2000 filing season than in the 1999 filing season; (2) for example, as of mid-April 2000, IRS reported that it had experienced fewer work stoppages caused by critical system-related problems and had fewer

GAO noted that: (1) TRIS is a key component of IRS' plans to improve its telephone accessibility; (2) as of May 1998, IRS had implemented 9 different applications at all of its 25 customer service centers; (3) relatively few taxpayers have used TRIS applications, and although IRS has spent about $53 million on TRIS through February 1998, the system's benefits remain uncertain; (4) in fiscal year